Solid borders are so boring. With flat design being as popular as it is, solid borders are becoming the norm. Remember the days of extravagant transitions between sections and obnoxious borders? Zig zags, swirls, fading, you name it! Some liked this design trend, some didn’t …

I’ve built my fair share of WordPress sites. My clients love WordPress because it makes updating their content extremely simple after our contract is up. Of all the project I’ve done and been asked to do, WordPress is by far the most requested. For all …

If you’ve read any number of my posts, you are well aware that I’m a huge proponent of CSS over Javascript whenever possible. With recent innovations to CSS3 over the last handful of years, animations that once required Javascript can be accomplished with CSS. This …

I remember the first time I saw a website with a moving background image. It immediately caught my eye, and I wasn’t able to focus on anything else on the page. It was so new…so cool…it was something I had never seen before. At the …

Email subscription fields and forms are a great idea in theory, but unless you have thousands of daily visitors to your site, you probably aren’t getting the subscription numbers you want. It’s more likely that only a small percentage of your visitors will see your …

I’ve recently become a bit obsessed with my high sites high bounce rates. I’m talking really high bounce rates, in the 80-85% range. The optimist in me interprets this as the vast majority of my visitors are looking for one specific solution, they find it …

The days of abruptly jumping to an anchor link within a page are over. Ok, maybe that is a little drastic, but honestly with all the advancements in HTML5 and CSS3, there really isn’t any reason why anyone should be abruptly thrust down a page …